Morocco’s National Commission for the Control of the Protection of Personal Data (CNDP) has begun notifying businesses in healthcare, law and other sectors they must comply with Law 09.08, which oversees collection and processing of personal data, or they’ll face penalties.
The state attorneys general of California and 19 other states claim the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated federal privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when it released private medical data of enrollees without their consent to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The government wants the data to track immigrant use of the system.
Search engines, including Google and Microsoft, will now have to verify the age of Australian users to prevent young people having access to content deemed inappropriate, including high-impact violent material and pornography. An under-16 social media ban is also anticipated to go into effect around the same time.
Media mix models (MMM), originally developed in the 1960’s, have undergone a resurgence as new technologies make them easier to execute and click-based attribution becomes less credible. But evaluating MMM brings its own challenges. Australia-based Mutinex offers a vendor-neutral Open Source MMM Validation Framework which is now available for free to North American marketers and agencies.